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The House for an Art Lover was built between 1989 and 1996 in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park, based on a 1901 design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife and collaborator Margaret MacDonald. The idea to actually construct the house was the brainchild of Graham Roxburgh, a Glasgow civil engineer who had done refurbishment work on other Mackintosh interiors. The building provides a showcase for some of Mackintosh's furnishings, an excellent restaurant and provides a unique venue for weddings and other events.
I've always loved this building, having been to several weddings there, and being a frequent visitor to the park with my family and dog. Building any Mackintosh building in Lego presents challenges because of his use of curves. I used hinge plates to recreate the bowed windows and small transparent bricks to represent the heavily mullioned windows that characterise Mackintosh's designs.
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House for an Art Lover is one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's most popular buildings, located in Bellahouston Park in the heart of Glasgow's Southside, and often used as a spectacular wedding venue. I was recently asked to build a model of the frontage, and developed this vista of the building as part of this commission.
Although the frontage is not symmetrical, I wanted to recreate a vista that would look stylish and balanced within the 9 inch square white frame. The model shows part of the frontage made up of around 300 lego pieces. It is four studs deep in the box frame, allowing a three dimensional impression of the balcony and bowed windows which are charactersitic of this building.
Designed by Denis Donoghue in Glasgow
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